82 AGARICINI. 



Hygro- below, and attenuated, not spotted. Gills decurrent, few, very 

 phorus. distant, somewhat ventricose, pure white then tinged with cine- 

 reous, interstices obscurely rugose. 



Often umbilicate. Remarkable for the few and distant gills. 



In woods. Rare. King's Cliffe. 



Name — from the distant gills. Berk. Out. p. 200. /. 13.7^ 1. C. Hbk. n. 

 564. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 415. 



31. H. Clarkii B. & Br. — Pileus livid-cinereous, convex, some- 

 what umbonate, viscous, margin even. Stem hollow, of the same 

 colour as the pileus. Gills adnate, broad, when larger nearly 12 

 mm. (}4 in.) broad, distant, thick, white. 



Fragile. 



In pastures. Street. Perth Fungus Show. Sept.-Oct. 



Name— after J. A. Clark. B. 6" Br. n. 1358. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 527. Fr. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 415. 



32. H. metapodius Fr.— Pileus 4-7.5 cent. (1^-3 in.) broad, 

 c'mereous-fuscous, compactly fleshy, convex then plane, obtuse, at 

 first even and slightly shining, then silky and squamulose, irregu- 

 lar; flesh 12 mm. (y 2 in.) thick, pallid-grey, reddish when broken 

 and at length becoming black. Stem 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) long, 

 12 mm. ( l /2 in.) and more thick, stuffed, attenuated downwards, 

 unequal, ascending, smooth, cinereous, reddish iiitemally. Gills 

 variously adnate (for the most part arcuato-decurrent behind, or 

 broadly emarginate), distant, thick, veined, about 6 mm. (3 lin.) 

 broad, grey-white. 



Odour of new meal, taste mild. In respect of its flesh being compact, red- 

 dish when broken and at length becoming black, and its thick juicy gills, it is 

 very analogous with Russula nigrica?is. There is a var. paradoxa appearing 

 among taller mosses; stem elongated to 10 cent. (4 in.), wholly fusiform, 

 pileus smaller, regular and villous, gills obconico-decurrent as in H. pratensis. 



In old pastures. Street, 1871. Glamis, 1876. Aug.-Nov. 



Name — from the stem (jtov?) being as it were upside down (fieri). Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 135. Hym. Eur. p. 415. B. & Br. ?i. 1359. S. Mycol. Scot, 

 n. 528. 



33. H. ovinus Fr.— Pileus 5 cent. (2 in.) broad, fuscous, slightly 

 fleshy, campanulate then expanded, somewhat umbonate, at first 

 slightly viscid and even, then dry and squamulose, at length 

 revolute, undulated, rimosely incised; flesh only 4 mm. (2 lin.) 

 thick, rigid-fragile. Stem about 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 6 mm. (3 lin.) 

 thick, somewhat stuffed, somewhat equal or slightly thickened at 

 both ends, curved or twisted, compressed, smooth, slightly shin- 



